作者：David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Flanagan David, Matsumoto Yukihiro
出版日期：January 25, 2008
出版社：O'Reilly
页数：446
ISBN：0596516177
文件格式：PDF

The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritativeguide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-starteam:
David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language “bibles” (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository.Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of Ruby in a Nutshell, which has been expanded and revised to become this book.why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire.This book begins with a quick-start tutorial to the language, andthen explains the language in detail from the bottom up: from lexicaland syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements andon through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules.
The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to the richAPI of the Ruby platform, demonstrating — with heavily-commentedexample code — Ruby’s facilities for text processing, numericmanipulation, collections, input/output, networking, and concurrency.An entire chapter is devoted to Ruby’s metaprogramming capabilities.
The Ruby Programming Language documents the Ruby languagedefinitively but without the formality of a language specification. Itis written for experienced programmers who are new to Ruby, and forcurrent Ruby programmers who want to challenge their understanding andincrease their mastery of the language.